When was Cake founded?

Cake was founded in 2021 and raised its 1st funding round 3 years after it was founded.

Where is Cake located?

Cake is headquartered in New York, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Cake?

Misha Herscu of Cake. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Cake have?

As of Sep 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Cake is 12.

Is Cake a funded company?

Cake is a funded company, having raised a total of $***** in its 1st and only funding round, a Seed round on Dec 04, 2024.

When was the latest funding round of Cake?

Cake's latest funding was a $***** Seed round on Dec 04, 2024, with participation from 6 investors. Its primary sector is AI Infrastructure. In United States, the AI Infrastructure sector has seen $269B in funding in 2026 to date.

Where does Cake rank among its competitors?

Cake ranks 15th amongst 256 active competitors, of which 23 are funded. It stands 5th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Oumi, which secured $10M in Jan, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Cake?

Cake's top competitors include Hugging Face, Replicate and Flower. Among them, Oumi secured the most recent funding round in January, 2025.

Cake - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Provider of an AI development platform with pre-integrated open-source components. The platform allows users to assemble AI stacks using pre-integrated open-source components. It offers a selection of managed commercial and open-source AI tools with pre-built integrations. The platform provides centralized command over a distributed system, offering oversight and collaboration on AI projects. It supports various AI and ML functions, including generative AI, inference, traditional ML, data engineering, and infrastructure.

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2021

Location

New York, United States

Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$13M in 1 round

Latest Funding Round

Seed, Dec 04, 2024, $*****

Investors

Gradient Ventures & 5 more

Ranked

15^th among 256 active competitors

Employee Count

12 as on Sep 30, 2026

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Cake has raised a total funding of $13M over 1 round. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Dec 04, 2024 for $*****. 6 investors participated in its latest round. Cake has 6 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Cake:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Dec 04, 2024	2081468	Seed	4895073	1021515	4985258	8366941

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The founders of Cake are Skyler Thomas and Misha Herscu. Misha Herscu is the CEO of Cake.

Here are the details of Cake's key team members:

Skyler Thomas: Co-Founder & CTO of Cake.
Misha Herscu: Co-Founder & CEO of Cake and founder of 1 other company.
Contact Info: 1 email address

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Cake's employee count trend

Cake has 12 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Cake's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Cake include Hugging Face, Replicate and Flower. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Cake, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Hugging Face 2016, Paris (France), Acquired	Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models	$400M	Lux Capital, Salesforce & 35 others	80/100
2nd	Replicate 2018, Berkeley (United States), Acquired	Provider of a cloud-based open-source platform for machine learning models	$57.8M	Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator & 9 others	70/100
3rd	Flower 2023, Hamburg (Germany), Series A	ML framework for federated learning	$24.1M	Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator & 7 others	62/100
4th	Outerbounds 2021, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	AI-based open-source machine learning platform	$24M	Amplify Partners, Foundation Capital & 4 others	60/100
5th	Oumi 2024, Seattle (United States), Seed	Open-source AI platform for model development and deployment	$10M	Obvious Ventures, Venrock & 2 others	57/100
6th	Giotto Technologies 2017, Switzerland, Acquired	Developer of reasoning technology designed to advance artificial general intelligence	$5.02M	Faster Capital, Park House Partners	56/100
7th	Featureform 2020, United States, Acquired	Provider of AI-based open-source platform offering data orchestration	$8.1M	Zetta Venture Partners, GreatPoint Ventures ... & 3 others	42/100
8th	Qwen 2023, Hangzhou (China), Unfunded	Platform providing a comprehensive range of multimodal perception solutions	-	-	52/100
9th	All Hands AI 2024, Pittsburgh (United States), Seed	Open-source software development agent	$5M	Menlo Ventures, Pillar VC & 6 others	51/100
10th	PyTorch 2016, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Open source machine learning framework accelerating research and production deployment	-	-	50/100
15th	Cake 2021, New York (United States), Seed	Provider of an AI development platform with pre-integrated open-source components	$13M	Gradient Ventures, Primary Venture Partner ... & 4 others	43/100